the labor message continued in michigan as vice president biden kept up the anti-republican attack in detroit. >> they view you as the problem. we view you and know you to be the solution in america. >> reporter: but as democrats hammered republicans on the road, gop vice presidential candidate paul ryan responded in their own convention state of north carolina. >> we can either choose to stay on the path we are on, a path of debt, a path of doubt and decline, a path of joblessness, or we can get things turned around. >> reporter: the dnc moves outdoors thursday when president obama accepts the nomination. tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. >>> more than 100,000 people in louisiana and mississippi are still in the dark this morning herely one -- nearly one week after hurricane isaac ripped through the area. >>> we still have plenty ahead. your weather, traffic and all of your top stories. >> fox 5 morning news at 4:30 starts now. >>> good morning. it is tuesday, september 4th, the first day of school for a lot of students out there this morning especially over there in virginia. we'll be checking wi